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Originally Posted by meeera
There's a sucker born every minute.
"Calibre's too haaard for you, here pay us and we'll make it easy" is a sales pitch that works on some people. As is just trading on people's ignorance of the tools available.
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I wouldn't go that far (the sucker line). Look, my own business is that and print design/layout. There are folks who want to make their own eBooks and those that don't. It's pretty much that simple.
Those that do, will do what you've done, bang around, look at options; they'll bother to learn pesky stuff like Styles and Headings and get a fundamental grasp of the necessities of HTML (or at least MSFT Word, et al) and then they'll give it a go.
Then there are my clients--who range from "can't be bothered and can afford to pay for the service," to "couldn't find their DOWNLOADS folder with a search warrant, binoculars and a detailed map." That's just how it is. They also pay. And a good number that feel that they earn money when they are writing, not when they are formatting--so they pay us. Everybody's happy.
And of course, we have those that want the "whole enchilada," which is, they need a print interior designed AND they want their eBook to look/feel "just" like it--or channel the look/feel and for the typical ammy DIY eBooker, doing that is a bridge too far.
I dunno, I can't swear we'll still be here, chugging along in 5 years or even 5 months, for that matter, but we've muttered along for 13 years so far. Everybody is different and how they get to a formatted eBook--shrug--each takes their own path.
Hitch